I think Virtual Light is still entirely possible, though the book was set in 2005.

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we kind of already live in a akira, minus the kids blowing up and stuff. Ok, we live in akira pre- tetsuo getting powers.

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>>684
Forgot my comment.

We are not told what year Ex-Dirver is set in but it doesn't look that far. Google, some universities, japanese and german car makers are already developing self-driving cars and Nissan is trying to introduce their drive-by-wire technology.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2023

>>686
Or maybe Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040.

Planetes - set in year 2075.

The story of Planetes follows the crew of the DS-12 "Toy Box" of the Space Debris Section, a unit of Technora Corporation. Debris Section's purpose is to prevent the damage or destruction of satellites, space stations and spacecraft from collision with debris in Earth's and the Moon's orbits.

We're gonna have to do that eventually so yeah i bet it will happen before then, as far as i know we dont really do fuck all about space debris other than track it. several attempted methods have proven too costly or unreliable.

>>672
Kids do blow stuff up, just not in high density, affluent metropolitan areas.

>>752
Yeah, but the kids themselves don't blow up into lumpy flesh-machine hybrids.

>>731
I like this show. It's like a workplace comedy with hard sci fi

Star wars

I think the biggest impediment right now is that people simply don't have enough money to deck the world in cybernetics.

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